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James Grant

I wasn't introduced to a soldering iron until I was in his teens. Since the end of my GCSEs I have really used one much either. But starting in 2008 I found an interest in it again and I've since been dabbling in home automation and environmental sensing.

Blog

What I'm currently working on and documentation enough to build it independently (I hope) is on the blog http://wwww.queeg.org/

Home Energy/Environment Monitor

At the moment I am working on devices that have a vaguely green angle. Including AVR programming, wireless communications, 1-Wire, temperature and humidity sensing, power control and power usage sensing.

The eventual aim is to have a collection of collaborating devices that can report on environmental conditions and control the power to devices automatically (such as the dehumidifier) and manually (such as the TV). From there I may look into moving the boiler to computer control.

I've found an interesting project OpenEnergyMonitor and will be using ideas from there and other locations.